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Opera Ioan. Goropii Becani, hactenus in lucum non edita: nempe, Hermathena, Heiroglyphica, Vertumnus, Gallica, Francica, Hispanica

by: Becan, Jan, 1518-1572; Torrentius, Laevinus, 1525-1595; Plantin, Christopher, ca. 1520-1589, printer

Publication date: 1580

Topics: Emblems, Hieroglyphics

Publisher: Antwerpiæ : Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, architypographus Regius

Collection: emblem; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Latin

Item Size: 2.0G

Each part has special t.p. and separate paging and collation; printer's device on title pages; engraved portrait; ornamental initials

Hieroglyphica contains 4 engravings, a woodcut coat of arms, and 41 woodcuts of "Egyptian gods and archaeological, allegorical or symbolical representations" (cf. Voet)

Edited by L. Torrentius. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat

Binding: Sprinkled leather; covers and final leaf detached; spine split; decorated edges

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries

Voet, L. Plantin Press (1555-1589)